Hobby Lobby Gets Busted!

American retailer Hobby Lobby just got slap with a massive fine from the Department of Justice (DOJ) after it was discovered that the retailer had knowingly purchased and attempted to smuggle in some Iraqi artifacts to add to a museum that the retailer had been funding and is scheduled to open in Washington this year.

The Hobby Lobby President did release a statement surrounding the controversy, stating that the acknowledge the poor decisions had been made in obtaining the illegal goods and most of the blame was due to lack of experience in the process of properly logging shipped items/ artifacts. Hobby Lobby has agreed to return all 5500 of them items as well as pay a fine of 3 million dollars.